Intro; Dedication; Epigraph; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Point of View; 1. Rage and Reason-an Eternal Ambivalence; The Fallacy of the Swami's Snake; The Freudian Legacy; The Anger Business; The Use and Abuse of Anger; 2. Uncivil Rites-the Cultural Rules of Anger; The Judicial Emotion; A Brief Madness; Manners, Emotions, and the American Way; 3. The Anatomy of Anger; Emotions and the Brain; Temper and Temperament: The Genetic Ingredient; The Fuel of Anger; Thinking About Feeling; Biological Politics 4. Stress, Illness, and Your Heart-Myths of Suppressed AngerEating Disorders, Overweight, and Ulcers; Anger and Depression; The Stress Connection; Anger and Heart Disease; Considerations; 5."Getting It Out of Your System"-Myths of Expressed Anger; Myth #1: Aggression; Myth #2: Talking Out Anger; Myth #3: Tantrums; The Conditions of Catharsis; 6."Seeing Red"; Frustration; Noise; Crowds; Drivers and Dawdlers; Alcohol; Exercise and Sports; Considerations; 7. Shouters, Sulkers, Grouches, and Scolds-Which Sex Has the Anger Problem?; The Stereotype Up Close; The Persistence of Myth; Two Cultures 8. The Marital OnionThe Onion Unpeeled; The Systems Solution; In Praise of Civility; 9.A Rage for Justice; The Rationalizing Species; The Birth and Death of Anger; Temper of the Times; 10. Rethinking Anger: Strategies for Living with Anger and Getting Beyond It; Chronic Anger; The Difficult Person; The Angry Divorce; The Aggressive Child; The Victim; Considerations; Further Reading; About the Author; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Copyright